On 17/01/18 15:33, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> On 17/01/2018 10:56 AM,mcloughlin.dj@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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>> What about somewhere at Essendon Airport? The (Commonwealth?)

>> government still owns the actual land.

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The commonwealth would need to transfer a parcel of land to the state
who could them lease/transfer it to PTV who would then then contract
with the operator presumably to construct a depot.
The legals involved in moving the land from federal to state could try
up legal teams for years. It would be quicker for the feds to sell the
land and for the state to buy it off the people who bought it off the
feds....

> Another option would be the (heavily polluted) defence land at West

> Maribyrnong - which would not be too bad a location to serve 82 and 57

> and could be linked to 59 via  a direct connection in Maribyrnong Rd

> between Ascot Val Rd and Mt Alexander Rd.


This would have 'entertaining' federal vs state legals too. But I wonder
if contamination would make it more viable for a depot - the depot can
encase all the contaminated land under concrete. Any federal attempt to
sell the land for redevelopment would incur large clean up costs, where
as if it became a tram depot/yard the contamination could be 'entombed'
under mass concrete storage tracks.